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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role

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